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When evaluating your law department's processes and technologies for managing IP, how do you determine your real world needs as well as the practical requirements to begin addressing those needs? Highlights of this session will be discussions of key law department systems and vendors to address your needs, making the case for capital investment or how to make use of what you already have, and how to ensure successful change management.

This is sample contract review legal escalation criteria.

"the "Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals"

What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?

After an evidentiary hearing and careful review of the record, including the parties' post-hearing supplemental briefs, exhibits, and proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law, the court made findings of fact and conclusions of law in the Stolt-Nielsen case.

This paper seeks to provide a framework for boards to build a renewal process that increases accountability and achieves the right mix of skills and experience to create long-term effectiveness in the United States.

This article explores why vague contractual terms are routinely used, explains how they have been inconsistently interpreted by the courts, and offers some practical tips to minimize the havoc ambiguous terms can wreak.

In four separate decisions, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) either affirmed findings of non-infringement or reversed findings of infringement. This article reports on those decisions, and specifically the issue of patent infringement and the importance of claim construction.

This is a sample consulting agreement where the contractor agrees to provide public relations and marketing services.

This is a sample basic services agreement.

This resource presents the leading practices of legal departments that leverage dedicated legal operations staff to manage the business aspects of Legal. Through profiles of 11 legal departments, it conveys who leads the legal operations function, relationships between general counsel and their legal operations leaders, reasons for the legal operations function, how it functions, its scope and impacts.

Legal Technology Planning Survey

A list of ACC legal resources related to each session presented at the Advanced Mini MBA Business Education course at Boston University.

ACC President Fred Krebs discusses measures to take to help companies during the economic downturn.

In this article, Hong Kong's developing drone regulations are discussed. Since the proliferation of inexpensive materials and applicable projects are skyrocketing, Hong Kong is reckoning with rapid advancement in this technology sector. This resource was produced in 2019.

In this article key questions are answered concerning merger control from the European Lawyer Reference Series.

A general overview of some of the nuances in the employment and labor law in Norway. The document delves into the legal framework, then touches on core areas (employment contracts, working conditions, etc.)

This article addresses investors who are pushing for more disclosure and enhanced sustainability reporting in shareholder proposals.

This article deals with legislation regarding tenure of pregnant employees on fixed term employment in Brazil.

It seems hard to believe that one
association could address the needs
of such a diverse group and yet, that’s
what ACC has been doing successfully
for the past 25 years. Our leadership provides a well-rounded view of the challenges facing in-house counsel and are dedicated to helping ACC address them. To do this, we’ve established four key strategic goals: (1) Globalization, (2) Career Path, (3) Advocacy, and (4) Communications.

This article discusses the U.S. Supreme Court decision that “clarified” and changed the religious accommodation standard under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act that employers and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have relied upon for more than 46 years.

This article provides answers to questions, when inside counsel represent corporate affiliates: (a) under what circumstances must they consider the propriety, under DR 5-105 and DR 5-108, of representing or continuing to represent those affiliates? (b) may a conflict between those affiliates be waived? (c) are there steps that can be taken in advance that will enhance the possibility that inside counsel may continue to represent some or all of the affiliates after a conflict arises?

Rather than mandating that board members become cybersecurity experts themselves, the well-established framework for public company governance demands that boards oversee effective processes to identify and mitigate cyber risks within a company.

A sample corporate integrity agreement between the OIG and an organization.

Panelists are expected to address a number of patent prosecution issues that in-house counsel continue to struggle with, either when dealing with their own outside patent counsel or addressing these issues directly on their own. These issues include: strategies for filing a U.S.-based application or Patent Cooperation Treaty at the outset; proper claim construction; nuances for filing under the AIA and any changes they have seen in prosecution under the America Invents Act; and practical tips for foreign filing strategies, etc. Exercises in claim construction and foreign filing considerations (e.g., a road map to key countries, and why or why not a company should seek protection outside the United States in Europe, Asia, South America) are expected.

This is a sample employment agreement between the company and its executive related to the state of Delaware.

This is a sample guarantee agreement between a company and a financial institution.

Provides guidance on the intricacies of how employers in Europe must work with trade unions and works councils, including the role that these labor organizations play in business enterprises in Europe, and includes methods by which companies doing business in Europe-or contemplating starting operations in Europe-can best work with the unions and works councils in order to reach their goals.